[Magdalen] Time Zones.

[Christopher Hart]

Not sure where you are getting your information, David. My computer shows
Rio being only one hour ahead of EDT. Perhaps they would be 2 hours ahead
of EST, but being in the southern hemisphere are not using summer hours now.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> It's always dark on the fabulous beaches of Rio when the USA  newscasters
> report on the Olympics.  I therefore just checked the time zones  and
> as I thought, they are 2 hours ahead of us.  Part of Brazil is three  hours
> ahead, but not Rio.
>
> It is interesting to see what the various nations have done with the  time
> zones.  Some of the gerrymandering makes the fudging of time  zones
> in the USA pale in comparison.
>
> For example, China just ignores time zones entirely, and the whole
> country is in one time zone (there should be four zones).   Australia
> is in one zone only, and New Zealand, that should be two hours ahead
> of Australia, opts for the same zone as the Aussies.
>
> And I thought it was a little brazen for the Detroit automakers to  have
> conspired to keep the Motor City in sync with Wall Street!
>
>
>
>
> David S.  -   Who can't believe it's been 53 years since  "The Girl from
>                     Ipanema."
>



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